Pathways to Pride: MetroWest’s Booming LGBTQ Older Adult Initiative
As recently as a few years ago the MetroWest area was considered a “gay desert.” There were no programs, social opportunities, services or resources for LGBTQ older adults.
In the past three years a group...
Rhode Island youth sports program partners with LGBT+ youth initiative
Project GOAL (Greater Opportunity for Athletes to Learn), the Rhode Island nonprofit that inspires academic achievement through sports—namely, soccer—is partnering with the LGBT+ youth initiative Play Proud to train coaches to help their programs...
Glossier pop-up shop at Boston’s Seaport to donate proceeds to BAGLY
Glossier's new pop-up shop in Boston's Seaport district will donate proceeds to fund a "year's worth of Family Dinners" program put on by the Boston Alliance of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Youth (BAGLY),...
Greater Boston PFLAG Executive Director Val Frias to step down
After three years of leadership and service, Greater Boston PFLAG's executive director, Val Frias, is leaving the organization to become the CEO of the elderly and disabled home and community-based care nonprofit Ethos. Frias's...
Three Connecticut high school athletes sue against transgender competitors
Three Connecticut high school track team runners filed a complaint with the US Education Department's Office for Civil Rights alleging that transgender athletes have cost them races and scholarships. Conservative Christian law firm Alliance...
LGBTQ youth in rural Maine see growing support through efforts like Mount Desert Island...
It's almost impossible to know what life is like elsewhere unless we experience it ourselves, or at least hear about it on the news. Take a story in the Bangor Daily News, for example....
Drag queen story hour prevails over protest at Waterville, Maine’s Pride
More than 200 people came out to support a drag queen story hour in Waterville last Saturday.
Last month, the “Drag Queen Story Hour” at Children’s Book Cellar had drawn a protest planned by anti-LGBT...
Maine’s governor signs anti-conversion therapy bill into law, making all New England conversion therapy...
Maine Governor Janet Mills, a Democrat, yesterday signed into law a bill to ban conversion therapy on minors in her state—making Maine the 17th state in the US to ban the harmful practice and...
Transgender teen Nicholas Bulman crowned prom king at Barnstable High
Barnstable High School crowned graduating senior Nicholas Bulman its prom king at its Class of 2019 fête last Friday night. Bulman's friend and field hockey teammate Abby Al-Asousi accompanied him to the prom, held...
Maine House passes bill to ban conversion therapy on minors, with governor support, senate...
The Maine House of representatives voted 91–46 for a bill to ban conversion therapy on minors. Five Republicans and five independents joined 81 Democrats to support the legislation. The next day, the state's senate, where...
